POOR PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poor person mean? 

• POOR PERSON (noun)
  The noun POOR PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person with few or no possessions

  Familiarity information: POOR PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POOR PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with few or no possessions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

have-not; poor person

Hypernyms ("poor person" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poor person"):

poor white trash; white trash ((slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished)

down-and-out (a person who is destitute)

pauper (a person who is very poor)

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

 Context examples 

These provisions laid in, we went on through a great noise and uproar that confused my weary head beyond description, and over a bridge which, no doubt, was London Bridge (indeed I think he told me so, but I was half asleep), until we came to the poor person's house, which was a part of some alms-houses, as I knew by their look, and by an inscription on a stone over the gate which said they were established for twenty-five poor women.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)